True life is elsewhere.
ARTHUR RIMBAUDWeakness or strength: you exist, that is strength. You don’t know where you are going or why you are going, go in everywhere, answer everyone. No one will kill you, any more than if you were a corpse.
More Arthur Rimbaud Quotes
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I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple; garlands from window to window; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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You feel on your lips a kiss Fluttering, a tiny scrap of life.
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The only unbearable thing is that nothing is unbearable.
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Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.
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I could never throw Love out of the window.
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Faith assuages, guides, restores.
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I shed more tears than God could ever have required.
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It was the voice of mad seas, roaring immense, That shattered your infant breast, too soft, too human.
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I may die of earthly love, or of devotion.
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O seasons, O castles, What soul is without flaws? All its lore is known to me, Felicity, it enchants us all.
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Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!
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And from that time on I bathed in the Poem Of the Sea, star-infused and churned into milk, Devouring the green azures; where, entranced in pallid flotsam, A dreaming drowned man sometimes goes down.
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And I am still alive-what though, my damnation is eternal. A man who deliberately mutilates himself is truly damned, is he not? I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am.
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True alchemy lies in this formula: ‘Your memory and your senses are but the nourishment of your creative impulse’.
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The northern lights rise like a kiss to the sea.
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